Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 127

Behind them was the Tribe in hierarchical order, from owners of four caves (one for each season), a private reindeer-run, and two salmon-leaps, to feudal and prognathous Villeins, semi-entitled to half a bearskin of winter nights, seven yards from the fire, and adscript serfs, holding the reversion of a scraped marrow-bone under heriot (Aren’t those beautiful words, Best Beloved?).

Who acts: legs, feudal Villeins, scraped marrow bone · What happens: be, semi-entitl, hold, scrape, not be, revert · To what, where: hierarchical order, feudal Villeins, reversion, beautiful words

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, feudal Villeins, scraped marrow bone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Behind	behind	ADP	_	8 order	case
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 order	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 order	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tribe	det
5	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 order	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 order	case
7	hierarchical	hierarchical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 order	amod
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 owners	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 owners	case
11	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 order	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 caves	case
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 caves	nummod
14	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 owners	nmod
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 caves	appos
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 season	case
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 season	det
19	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 one	nmod
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 run	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 run	det
23	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 run	amod
24	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 run	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 reindeer	punct
26	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 order	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 leaps	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 leaps	cc
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 leaps	nummod
30	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leaps	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 salmon	punct
32	leaps	leap	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 order	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Villeins	punct
34	to	to	ADP	_	38 Villeins	case
35	feudal	feudal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Villeins	amod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 prognathous	cc
37	prognathous	prognathous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 feudal	conj
38	Villeins	villein	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 leaps	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 semi-entitled	punct
40	semi-entitled	semi-entitl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 Villeins	acl
41	to	to	PART	_	44 bearskin	mark
42	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	44 bearskin	det:predet
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 bearskin	det
44	bearskin	bearskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 semi-entitled	advcl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 nights	case
46	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 nights	compound
47	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 bearskin	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 yards	punct
49	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 yards	nummod
50	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 nights	conj
51	from	from	ADP	_	53 fire	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 fire	det
53	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 yards	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 serfs	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 serfs	cc
56	adscript	adscript	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 serfs	amod
57	serfs	serf	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 bearskin	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 holding	punct
59	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 Villeins	acl
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 reversion	det
61	reversion	reversion	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 holding	obj
62	of	of	ADP	_	67 bone	case
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 bone	det
64	scraped	scrape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	67 bone	amod
65	marrow	marrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 bone	compound
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 marrow	punct
67	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 reversion	nmod
68	under	under	ADP	_	69 heriot	case
69	heriot	heriot	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 bone	nmod
70	(	(	PUNCT	_	75 words	punct
71	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	75 words	cop
72	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	75 words	advmod
73	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	75 words	det
74	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 words	amod
75	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 Villeins	appos
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 Beloved	punct
77	Best	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 Beloved	flat
78	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	75 words	appos
79	?	?	PUNCT	_	78 Beloved	punct
80	)	)	PUNCT	_	75 words	punct
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 leaps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	legs = leg		hierarchical order and owners of four caves and a private reindeer run	tree rules
2	semi-entitl	participle		feudal Villeins not said here		tree rules
3	hold	gerund	feudal Villeins not said here	the reversion of a scraped marrow bone under heriot		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reversion=Theme
4	scrape	participle				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	not is a	present		that beautiful words		tree rules
6	revert		a scraped marrow bone under heriot			nom reversion «possession intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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